An impromptu fashion shoot at a book store brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk.An impromptu fashion shoot at a book store brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk.An impromptu fashion shoot at a book store brings about a new fashion model discovery in the shop clerk.
- Nominated for 4 Oscars
- 2 wins & 10 nominations total
Heather Ames
- Junior Editor
- (uncredited)
Fern Barry
- Southern Wife
- (uncredited)
Brandon Beach
- Fashion Show Guest
- (uncredited)
Paul Bisciglia
- Photographer
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBaroness Ella Van Heemstra: a sidewalk café patron. In real life, she is Audrey Hepburn's mother.
- GoofsAfter Dick kisses Jo and leaves the bookstore, Jo begins to sing "How Long Has This Been Going On". As she sings to herself while looking at the mirror in the supposedly empty bookstore, someone is reflected in the mirror moving around on the second floor of the bookstore.
- Quotes
Dick Avery: When I get through with you, you'll look like... What do you call beautiful? A tree. You'll look like a tree.
- Alternate versionsKay Thompson is shown singing "do some window shopping in the Rue de la Paix" in pouring rain, carrying an open umbrella. The version shown in the final film was shot in brilliant sunshine with the umbrella left closed!
- ConnectionsEdited into Chop Suey (2001)
- SoundtracksOverture: Funny Face/'S Wonderful/Think Pink!
(uncredited)
Lyrics by Ira Gershwin
Music by George Gershwin
Performed by Fred Astaire
Featured review
Plot, Schmot!
You have Audrey Hepburn, you have Fred Astaire, you have Gershwin songs. Who needs a plot?
Okay, there was something of a plot, something about a Greenwich Village girl who wants to go to Paris, talk b.s. philosophy on the Left Bank, wear black clothes and no make-up. It reads like something out of one of Woody Allen's early stories - before he wrote it!
Audrey Hepburn never knew how to look bad nor act bad. But in this she looks light-years more beautiful as the proverbial Greenwich Village used-book-store Plain Jane than any Paris fashion model - then or now.
Okay, there was something of a plot, something about a Greenwich Village girl who wants to go to Paris, talk b.s. philosophy on the Left Bank, wear black clothes and no make-up. It reads like something out of one of Woody Allen's early stories - before he wrote it!
Audrey Hepburn never knew how to look bad nor act bad. But in this she looks light-years more beautiful as the proverbial Greenwich Village used-book-store Plain Jane than any Paris fashion model - then or now.
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- Jul 5, 1999
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- Also known as
- Ein süßer Fratz
- Filming locations
- Château de la reine blanche, Coye-la-Forêt, Oise, France(wedding dress photo shoot, Dick's marriage proposal)
- Production company
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- Budget
- $3,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 43 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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